'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.